Rebecca Hirsch

screenshot of announcement for Allmaps + IIIF Partnership reading "Open up your map collections: Announcing the Allmaps - IIIF Partnership", with mini, multicolored map outlines and the Allmaps and IIIF logos.

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.

Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...

Why can't they just analyse their data? Why is any computation or statistics called AI now?

Save the date for this year's CDCS Annual Lecture! Dorothy Berry will discuss the development of JPCA Explore and how it reflects wider issues around creating human-scale digital projects.

Refreshments will be provided.

📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/48Ss1DS

PAN submitted for demolition of Argyle House and mixed-use redevelopment of the site - hotel, residential & office use: bit.ly/4oTnsOV. Project architects are Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM).

I dunno man, if you can’t keep 20% of the people you lead to hold the line, maybe you’re not up for the job?

YouTube video by Oli Frost Private jets don't pay fuel tax. Now I don't either.

Today’s fun tax tip…

(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)

youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

A diagram depicting a PhD project whereby editing salmon cells or ova leads to viral resistance from ISAV.

If you are looking for a PhD in the UK, please check out the LIDo program - www.lido-dtp.ac.uk/apply.
If you are interested in viruses and making genetically edited salmon, please look up my icase project.
International students are welcome to apply!
Please reach out if you have questions.

every year the myriad of teams that make up the University of Edinburgh's Library do amazing things, and every year we get a little bit better at communicating about those things.

Very happy to see ReConnect 2025, our annual report, go public today
library.ed.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

It's been great to see the close collaboration between our Digital Collections Project Team and the UX team on this!

The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the "fear of missing out," few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better. That is the conclusion of a Financial Times analysis of hundreds of corporate filings and executive transcripts at S&P 500 companies last year, providing one of the most comprehensive insights yet into how the Al wave is rippling through American industry.

From the noted anarchists at the Financial Times. archive.is/2025.09.23-0...

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

Gutted!! Seemed much busier more recently, so very sad to see this.

you could solve a lot of parking issues by switching the whole system so that you are only allowed to park where there are bays marked, rather than having to have lots of lines to show where you can't

It has but I think it only actually opened recently.

It was a Chinese restaurant that had been closed for a while before.

Seems like a bigger issue is that none of these people own the parking in front of their houses? So how much use is this if you can only park directly in front of your house where this has been installed when you get lucky and the spot is free?

Always worth reading Rabbi Danya

p.s. Mamdani never said globalize the intifada, so don't respond with the notion that he did. READ THE THREAD.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

you know I'm beginning to think that these people aren't 100% on the up and up.

Gavin Newsom, a schmuck who has spent every waking moment the last 10 years of his life thinking about political optics, getting dogwalked by a guy half the country didn't even know existed like 5 days ago

Whenever listening to someone in the tech world talk about the inevitable dominance of some tech or product, it's helpful to remember that 5 years ago every single one of them said that we were on the verge of everyone wearing VR headsets for work and play.

one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

You’d think that with the US making itself a lot less attractive to international students that the UK government could see the obvious opportunity. But no…

We're delighted to announce @natlibfi.bsky.social has joined the Consortium. The Library has recently begun a 2-year project to implement IIIF across several of the Library’s systems. You can learn more about the project on our website: iiif.io/news/2025/04...

I don’t really have anything productive to add to this discourse but I felt moved to say I went to grad school on a scholarship funded by the IMLS called the “Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.”

Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.